Suzanne

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Suzanne

Lyrics

Neil Diamond

Suzanne takes you dow-own To her place by the riverYou can hear the boats go byYou can spend the night foreverAnd you know the girl's half-crazyThat's why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from ChinaAnd just when you want to tell her That you have no love to give herShe gets you on her wavelength And lets the river answer That you've always been her lover-er

And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watchin' From a lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain Only-why drownin' men could see himHe said all men are sailors, thenUntil the sea shall free themBu-ut he, himself, was brokenLong before the sky would ope-enForsaken, almost humanHe sank beneath your wisdom like a sto-o-one

And you want to travel with himAhh you want to travel bli-indAnd you-ou think that you might trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Suzanne takes you down To her place by the riverAnd you can hear the boats that go byYou can spend the night foreverAnd the sun pours down like honey On Ou-our Lady of the HarborAnd she shows you where to look Amid the garbage and the flowersThere are heroes in the seaweedThere are children in the morni-ingThey are leanin' out for loveAnd they will lean that way foreverWhile Suzanne holds her mirror

Written by COHEN, LEONARDPublished by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing